Stopping threads from the outside

[Erno Kuusela]

In article <3c9e2692$0$24819$e4fe514c at dreader3.news.xs4all.nl>,
Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> writes:

| That's the received opinion indeed. It still leads to problems.
| I mean -- it's why you can kill a process, but not a thread. But in
| an agent system, every agent (presumably running a thread, although
| I've implemented systems where agents share threads, cooperative
| multi-tasking agents) is on its own, and shouldn't own objects
| or locks.

maybe forking separate processes won't take much more memory than
threads in that case, if they don't change memory pages inherited from
the parent.

  -- erno